Hi Paul,

On Thu 2036-Aug-07 18:15, Paul Quinn (3:640/384) wrote to Richard Webb:

 PQ>> helping.)  For the moment, I've pretty much given up on anything
 PQ>> like getting NLSS to work in other MS-DOS versions.
 RW> Hmmm, that may work, I've been scratching my head at how to
 RW> integrate fgrep into that to see if we couldn't bust out
 RW> under the 135 char limit of ms dos 6.22 and so far ...

PQ> I've been doing some occasional work on it.  The latest is just a
PQ> tidy-up of the version required to run with only Fido zones #s
PQ> between 1 & 5. 

Yah since there is no longer a z6 .

 RW> DId get it to play on wife's win98 machine (dos 7) of
 RW> course, but that machine doesn't have a nodelist on it, and
 RW> is not networked.

PQ> :)  Been there, done that.  At present, I'm using a 1.44 floppy to
PQ> feed test stuff to/from the two DOS versions installed in linux.

THat's what I"m doing, old fashioned sneakernet.  rEal
bugaboo for me with that one is that machine doesn't talk to the old blind
man, even in dos .

PQ> My next step is to maybe use the 'temp.bat' file a bit more, to get
PQ> around the 'local' limitation.  I just haven't had time recently,
PQ> with quite a few other things going on at present besides Fido.

I"ll cogitate as well.  IF you get a brainstorm on it will
sure be interested.  still deciphering the code a bit here
myself .

 RW> I'm not a programmer, I'm an audio technician .

PQ> Neither am I; I know how to code/program (simple, procedural
PQ> stuff)... that's it.  :)

YEp, and at times that sends me stumbling against the wall.

Regards,
           Richard
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